Real Estate

Durango is my favorite spot for full-time city living in Mexico. In fact, I consider this city my most exciting...

As of this writing, more than 11.5 million American and Canadians live overseas… And 2 million of them—nearly 20%–live in...

Among the new trends we faced last summer in Ireland, a country home being snapped up by a foreign buyer...

About 30 years ago, I was sitting at a palapa bar in Playa del Carmen waiting for the ferry to...

One of the best ways to generate cash flow from a property investment is through rental yields. But sometimes, keeping...

Whether you are simply exploring this beautiful Central American country, or snow-birding for the winter months, or moving on a...

“Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried-and-true means of building an individual’s cash flow and...

I didn’t realize it at the time, but, when I bought a pre-construction apartment on Panama City’s Avenida Balboa 17...

Negotiating a real estate deal in another country—both the purchase and the sale—is likely to be different for you than...

Your most important ally when buying, selling, or renting real estate overseas is your attorney. First thing, therefore, when beginning...

Leverage is a key tool in every U.S. property investor's kit. As late-night TV real estate investment gurus with courses...

White-sand beaches... warm water... year-round sunshine... and one of the healthiest diets in the world... For sun and sand lovers,...

How can you keep up with your plans of moving and/or buying property overseas in the middle of a pandemic?...

Properties in many countries have gotten dramatically cheaper, in dollar terms, thanks to favorable exchange rates. A strong dollar and...

If you’ve done any reading about living or retiring abroad, you’ve heard these words: "Rent before you buy." In fact,...

For a long time, owning a second home was reserved exclusively for the wealthy. Today that’s no longer true. You...

The term pocket money real estate is a nice way of saying properties for around US$50,000. Admittedly, it’s a bit...

Owning a second home overseas comes with a lot of benefits. But what are the best countries to buy in?...

Buying to flip is a common real estate investment strategy in the United States that doesn’t make sense in most...

In 2012, Lief and I bought an apartment in Medellin, Colombia. It was nearly 400 square meters in an architecturally...

If I were just starting out as an investor today, with little capital and an eye to converting that capital...

"But haven't we done this already? Haven't we already bought an old stone house surrounded by mud? Isn't that what...

Owning a property overseas can mean profit... and I'd say it always means fun. It can mean living a superior...

We talk a lot about the benefits of buying property overseas and why it makes sense to buy real estate...

Buying real estate overseas is fundamentally about diversification. This is true whether you buy for investment or for retirement and...

U.S. second-home markets are seeing exploding interest. It's understandable. Seems like a good time to have a second home somewhere...

We rank Mexico as joint-1st in our list of the best places to live and retire overseas. Mexico has some...

We’re going to kick off today by putting two beach properties head to head. I’m not going to tell you...

Resident global real estate investing expert Lief Simon—also, coincidentally, my husband—and I have been shopping the globe for real estate...

Google is generally recognized today as the answer to every question, but there are exceptions to that Internet Age fundamental...

You want to be sober when considering property purchase options in a foreign land. Certainly, you want your wits about...

We're reviewing the fundamentals of how to buy real estate overseas safely and with confidence... in an effort to arm...

We've been focused this week on current opportunities to buy real estate overseas. That's because the world right now is...

We've all been through the wringer these last few months. And the tough times are not over yet. But the...

Traveling to make a real estate purchase in another country is complicated if not impossible right now. COVID-19 restrictions mean...

When it comes time to flip the switch to retirement, Lief and I hope to have organized our lives so...

In Argentina, crisis isn’t the exceptional state of affairs. It’s the usual. Each generation of Argentines grows up watching its...

My beat is global property investing. However, it’s not always only about making money. Owning property in another country is...

Here are three things that should grab your attention about Medellín, Colombia, the market I have identified as the most...

Investing in real estate overseas is a great way to protect your savings. Having all of your money tied up...

You can make a complex project out of moving to a foreign country. For some people, that's half the fun....

This spring, my family has planted more vegetables in our garden than ever before. We don’t expect to be able...

The global shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic is going to have big effects on real estate markets worldwide....

While I waited, I wandered from room to room. It was the house I'd had in mind since the day...

We are deep into the lockdown now and thoughts are turning to what the world will be like when this...

Years ago, I knew a lady named Janet who bought a small piece of land on the southwestern coast of...

If you purchase a piece of real estate in another country, should you have the ownership documents issued in your...

One big loss can wipe out a lot of gains. After more than two-and-a-half decades of property investing experience across...

"I've told the buyer from Dublin that the other buyer, the gentleman from Cork, is considering by how much he'd...

"Can an evergreen tree die?" my son asked as I ran alongside his bike. Under Irish lockdown laws, we're free...